Galbiati Fratelli Brings Italian Luxury Brass Furniture to 101domus

Galbiati Fratelli Brings Italian Luxury Brass Furniture to 101domus

101domus welcomes Galbiati Fratelli to its roster of Italian luxury furniture houses, a name built on one material worked to its fullest expression: Italian luxury brass furniture, shaped, cast and hand-finished in Cantù, in the heart of Brianza's furniture-making district. For interior designers and FF&E buyers sourcing statement pieces that read as sculpture as much as furniture, Galbiati Fratelli offers a catalogue built around a single conviction — that hand-shaping, not machine production, can carry the same weight of craft as carved wood or cut stone.

The company was founded in 1963, and more than sixty years later remains a family business, now led by brothers Lucio and Valerio Galbiati. Production began with small classic pieces — coffee tables, mirrors, consoles, chairs — before the brand expanded into brass and wrought iron beds for the Italian and European markets through the 1970s and 1980s. Today the workshop produces fully tailor-made projects: bespoke furniture, finely decorated balustrades, and both classic and contemporary pieces designed and finished to a client's exact specification, a range that has kept the brand relevant across six decades of shifting interior fashion, moving from small domestic accessories to full architectural commissions without ever outsourcing the metalworking itself.

Raw Brass, Shaped Entirely by Hand

Galbiati Fratelli's process starts with raw brass, in pipes, bars or cast form, worked through sand-casting or lost-wax casting for sculptural components and laser-cut or waterjet-cut for precise flat elements. The scrolls and curls that define many pieces are shaped from solid bar, curved by hand while still hot, then framed into structures finished with computer-guided tools — a working method that pairs traditional metalworking with contemporary engineering. Every surface is polished by hand, then gilded, silvered or protected with a clear oven-fired lacquer, finishing choices that shape how each piece ages in a project over decades rather than years. Much of the current catalogue sits within the brand's Exclusive Interiors collection, developed with outside designers including Matteo Citterio and the studio 8&A Architetti, a collaboration model that has kept the brand's classical metalworking vocabulary in dialogue with contemporary interior design.

Signature Statement Pieces in Sculptural Brass

The Mondrian L Armchair shows the brand's brass vocabulary at its most architectural, its geometric frame reading as much as a piece of sculpture as a seat, suited to a study, entrance hall or gallery-like living room where a single object is expected to anchor the space. The Swing Rocking Chair takes the same material confidence into motion, its curved metal frame engineered to rock smoothly while carrying real weight, a piece built to work as a conversation piece in a lounge or hospitality lobby rather than an everyday seat. Together the two pieces explain why buyers sourcing genuine brass furniture of this calibre continue to look toward Galbiati Fratelli: the metalwork holds its precision whether the piece is at rest or in motion.

Seating for Living Rooms and Lounges

Beyond its statement pieces, Galbiati Fratelli applies the same metalworking discipline to seating built for everyday use. The Tammi Modular Sofa pairs a brass-framed structure with upholstery chosen to soften the metal's presence, its modular layout suited to a living room where the sofa needs to anchor the room without dominating it visually. The Aura Chair repeats the brand's sculptural vocabulary at a smaller scale, its slender metal frame suited to a dining table or as an accent chair paired with heavier upholstered pieces. Both items are produced in the same finishes available across the wider catalogue, letting a designer specify a coordinated tone from one seating piece to the next.

Finishing Pieces: Consoles and Occasional Tables

The smaller pieces in the Galbiati Fratelli catalogue carry the same precision into a room's finishing touches. The Cesar Console, designed for the brand's Exclusive Interiors collection, balances visual lightness with structural solidity, its brass base built to anchor an entryway or reception space without reading as heavy. The Yoko Octagonal Coffee Table brings the same faceted metalwork into a living room centrepiece, its geometric base scaled to sit comfortably alongside upholstered seating rather than compete with it. Both pieces reflect the brand's willingness to let metal carry a room's visual weight rather than treating it as trim.

For 101domus's network of architects, interior designers and FF&E procurement professionals working across the Gulf, Central Asia and Eastern Europe, Galbiati Fratelli fills a brief that few Italian manufacturers can match: clients who want brass treated as the primary material of a piece, not a plated accent on top of another one. Handcrafted in Cantù since 1963 and shaped today by a third generation of the Galbiati family, the catalogue carries six decades of metalworking knowledge into every scroll, casting and hand-polished surface, offering a genuine source for projects where sculptural metal is the entire design brief rather than a finishing detail, and where a client expects the same hand that shaped the first scroll in Cantù to have shaped the last one too.